My Fellow Countrymen: Today marks the 57th anniversary of the advent of the Wuchang Revolution that overthrew the despotic rule of the Manchu dynasty and established the Republic of China.
The Republic was established by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, revolutionary martyrs and all the people of our nation, military and civilian alike, including your parents and grandparents. They shed their blood freely and thus gave a full measure of their revolutionary morale and justice for the nation. During these 57 years we have been engaged in battle during the Northward March, the periods of rebellion suppression, the war of resistance against Japan and the Communist usurpation. This ceaseless shedding of blood in connection with our deadly but righteous struggle signifies the awakening of the nation and testifies to confidence in the National Revolution. It further demonstrates the unswerving revolutionary spirit and dauntless character of a people who have been nurtured and steeled by our elite culture and the country's long span of history. This has made the Republic of China a pillar of peace and justice for the free world.
Unfortunately, the protracted and recurring rebellion of the Chinese Communists has lasted more than 40 years and has brought greater danger and deeper sorrow to our people and our nation. Today, however, the anti-Mao, anti-slavery great revolutionary struggle of the Chinese mainland is unfolding with the roar of mighty winds and the massing of storm clouds that exceed those on the eve of the Wuchang Revolution of 1911. This is the natural fruition of the sense of justice and morality to be found in the cultural and historical inheritance of our 700 million people. Our National Revolution continues, perseveres and develops; it has brought Mao Tse-tung to realization that his rule of violence and despotism is doomed. He has been forced into open admission that all Communist cadres "are Kuomintang in their thinking", that "there are many Kuomintang representatives in the Chinese Communist armed forces" and that "it is more difficult to fight against Kuomintang agents waving the red flag today than it was to fight the Kuomintang armed forces in the past".
Mao Tse-tung's evil thought runs contrary to our Chinese historical and cultural tradition, contrary to the thinking of the times, and even contrary to Marxism-Leninism. This wicked thought has not been accepted by the Chinese people during the last 19 years and is, in fact, completely incompatible with Chinese thinking. The Chinese people, including members of the Chinese Communist military and the party cadres, are reaching out for the thought of San Min Chu I (Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People). The thundering torrent of the anti-Mao movement on the mainland represents a concrete embodiment of San Min Chu I as well as of Chinese culture. This is a struggle against Communism and despotism as well as against Mao. The people of the mainland are actually engaged in an advance offensive action on behalf of the National Revolution. They demand a final settlement of accounts; they are engaged in a total war and all-out attack against Mao Tse-tung, the traitor.
Fellow countrymen: Our confident pledge to suppress Mao and assure the nation's salvation involves world security and the sorrow or happiness of mankind as well as the life or death of the Chinese people and the future of our country. The development of the complex and ominous international situation is reaching the critical point.
We are certain that the free world's survival depends upon resolution of the China problem. The Mao regime is the principal perpetrator of subversion and aggression in the world and especially in Asia. This regime seeks absolute global hegemony and must be extirpated before the Vietnam war can be brought to an honorable end and also before the continuing crisis of the Korean war can be dispelled. Only then will Asia and the Pacific area be relieved of the subversion, violence and nuclear threat posed by the Chinese Communists.
Humankind can survive the danger and find well-being only by advocating and practicing the San Min Chu I of our Founding Father. When racial equality is achieved, no one can be bullied. Development of democracy will lead to equality in human rights and all peoples will be freed of oppression. The economic equality provided by the Principle of the People's Livelihood will obviate the necessity for measures that lead to class struggle. It is San Min Chu I that affords a new orientation and an inspiration that propels mankind forward in the direction of the Great Common-wealth.
All of our compatriots should be prepared to follow the example of the revolutionary martyrs in their struggle and willingness to sacrifice their lives. We should solemnly pledge ourselves to implement San Min Chu I and to frustrate Mao's ambition to attain an "absolute hegemony". This will eliminate the danger of national calamity and extinction resulting from Mao's militancy. After solving the life-or-death problem of China, we can proceed to solution of the life-or-death problem of the world and assure man of a choice between happiness and tragedy.
Fellow countrymen: We all know that in the past Mao Tse-tung took an oath to follow the leadership of the Kuomintang, the teachings of San Min Chu I and the movement of the National Revolution initiated by Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Mao did so in an attempt to conceal his mass line, to instigate the people and to lure Kuomintang members into helping his proletarian struggle of treason against the Kuomintang and the government and the sell-out of the people.
Now let us consider Mao's attitude toward the workers and peasants. He falsely promised "rule by the workers" and "dictatorship of the workers' proletariat". The workers were caught in his death trap of "self-effacing labor", of increased work hours, of a tighter squeeze on hard-earned rewards and of lower wages. They also have lost all the freedom they were promised in the workers' proletariat. He told the peasants that their status would be raised, that they would be eligible to own land and could become "as prosperous as any rich family". Instead, the peasants have lost all the land they tilled and even their farm tools have been confiscated by the regime. Workers and peasants are now serving in Mao's "people's commune" as slaves and serfs and all of them have lost even their homes. Senior members of the Chinese Communist Party and the "People's Liberation Army" presumably should be Mao's "closed comrades-in-arms". Instead, they are being criticized and struggled against, one after another, as the members of a "privileged Red class" and of a "Red aristocracy" and because they have become such "ghosts and demons" as "old warlords", "bandit chieftains", "chameleons" and "small reptiles". Mao has called them "bandits", "renegades" and "factionalists of self-interest". Their monthly security check equates to a "monthly purge". The Red Guards were the "young generals" - new favorites of Mao and his wife, Chiang Ching. These "young generals" were instigated to threaten "those in authority", to beat up "cadres" and to start a "rational revolutionary movement". But when the Red Guards ran out of surplus value, Mao and his wife kicked them out. The Red Guards were accused of contemplating a "spiritual aristocracy superior to the workers and peasants" and of committing this or that mistake. Mao and his wife then compelled the armed forces to oppress and violently attack the Red Guards and to kill those who resisted. Workers and peasants were instigated to occupy the schools and to "transform the schools and the young intellectuals". The purpose was to turn the whole of the mainland Into a battlefield where peasant-worker groups and young intellectuals attacked and killed each other.
This, then, is the current situation of the "workers", "peasants", "soldiers", "party", "government", "military", "cadres", "close comrades-in-arms", "young generals" and so on. As a reward, they are paraded through the streets for recognition by the people, for mass trial and struggle, and even for plunder, persecution and massacre. They have lost their families, land, rations, freedom and their very lives.
On the mainland today, is there a single bona fide worker or peasant who again is willing to let Mao become the head of his family, let Mao cheat and squeeze him and surrender to Mao the harvest of his hard work in return for a meager and insufficient ration and coupons for cloth that is not adequate to cover his body?
Is there a single cadre or soldier of Mao's who considers it reasonable and just that his "close comrades-in-arms" should be criticized, struggled against, paraded through the streets and then put to death? I ask the people on the mainland: Is there anyone of you who can be called Mao's "close comrade-in-arms"? Do you think your life might be better than the lives of all the other "close comrades-in-arms"?
Is there any young intellectual who believes that his participation in the "revolution" on behalf of Mao is "reasonable"? Does anyone think that he has seized power for Mao and gained power for himself? Does anyone still consider himself a "young general" loyally attached to Mao and his wife? If so, must he not be inwardly ashamed of what he has done to destroy his country's history and culture and the nation itself?
I ask you on the mainland to stop and reflect: Before Mao plundered the mainland 19 years ago was your free life as dark and painful as is your life today? Was your human dignity insulted by "send-down" and "public trial" as is the case today? Were you totally and cruelly deprived of freedom of speech and action as you are today? Were your families broken and separated as they are today? Was your life as an individual subjected to continuous and unwarranted persecution as it is today? Is Mao Tse-tung not solely responsible for those unprecedented tragedies and this plundering of the mainland?
Those of you on the mainland have been living under Maoist tyranny and persecution for 19 years, leading a life that is worse than that in hell. You cannot choose even between life and death. Nineteen years have passed since I left you. Here on this bastion of Taiwan my sad and heavily burdened heart is always with our compatriots on the mainland. Never for a moment have I failed to search my heart for the way to deliver our compatriots from their agony and distress. I have not yet fulfilled my duty of saving the nation and the people. I cannot face God and our compatriots in good conscience. As a consequence of your agonizing physical experiences, your response must be puissant and you must share my feelings of burning indignation. In your indignation and desperation you certainly have made your own plans and preparations. Fellow countrymen: With the bandit Mao more iniquitous than ever and increasingly isolated, his regime is facing total collapse. Now is the moment for you on the mainland to cast off the bloody hand of Mao Tse-tung. This is the time to save your parents, your children, your country and your compatriots.
Our Founding Father, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, said: "Those who are loyal to the Republic of China are our friends; those who are not are our enemies." I, too, pledged: "Those who are not our enemies are comrades." I want to tell you that "those who raise red flags high in order to struggle against the red flag are really holding up the national flag of blue sky and white sun in opposition to the walking corpse of Mao Tse-tung". All of you should know that participation in our National Revolution is the duty of every citizen. Anti-Maoists and all who oppose Mao - young or old, regardless of party or creed, wherever they may be - are revolutionaries. All those who oppose Mao or who are opposed by him are revolutionaries and patriots. An anti-Mao comrade or an anti-Mao youth group on the mainland is our sentry and revolutionary fortress. All awakened Communist military forces and anti-Mao party organizations are our revolutionary detachments deployed all around Mao and taking a stranglehold on his throat. I want to reiterate and confirm my pledge that every anti-Mao military action for national salvation, whenever and wherever it may be carried out and especially those in the coastal provinces, will receive support and reinforcement from the naval, air and ground forces of our National Revolution within six hours of the time that a radio message or any other communication is received by our frontline troops. Commanders of defecting anti-Mao Communist forces will be assigned as administrative chiefs of the areas they recover.
Fellow countrymen: Torches of revolution are burning in every corner of the Chinese mainland. Those in coastal provinces many especially bright. Chinese home abroad should understand that anti-Mao war national salvation may break out at any time. The exact moment contingent upon determination all people country, military civilian alike. Although this moment cannot be exactly forecast, everyone can predict own determination, exercise responsibility his preparedness. The government island bastion Taiwan is ready providing timely support for uprising our mainland compatriots. Those of on mainland are not alone and we shall never fail to seize the opportunity send reinforcements to help you regain your freedom.
Fellow countrymen: Frenzied behavior will not enable the bandit Mao to escape the punishment he deserves and which the universe has ordained as the natural result of his conduct. Our mainland compatriots have pledged their lives to his destruction. Shining through the 20th century, our San Min Chu I illumines the path by which our 706 million people will march forward. Armed in national righteousness, all of you should unite with other dedicated and benevolent people of the mainland and overseas under the banner of the Anti-Mao and National Salvation United Front in the taking of concerted although differing actions to restore freedom. I shall follow you, do all that I can and devote the rest of my life to eliminating the traitor Mao and delivering the people of the mainland from the darkest hell in which they now seek to survive. We shall join together in recovering the mainland and accomplishing the third phase of the National Revolution, thus consoling the spirits of our Founding Father and National Revolution, thus consoling the martyrs in heaven.